in the news : February 2018

Courtesy of MultiBriefs Exclusive: I took delivery on my 718 Cayman on July 1, a little more than six months ago. The next weekend, I drove 150 miles to Monticello Motor Club for the Stuttgart Challenge in a monsoon. Within weeks, the Northeast was hit by two successive heat waves of nearly 100 degrees, and now more recently we've seen as many subzero cold fronts.
I think it's safe to say tha...Continue Reading

Courtesy of Turnology: Yokohama is proud to announce its affiliation with Spec MX-5 Challenge, a new category which spans the bridge between club Spec Miata and professional series like the Battery Tender MX-5 Cup. These sorts of series help make the world of professional motorsport slightly more egalitarian, and in these days of extremely high barriers to entry, they’re a breath of fresh ai...Continue Reading

Courtesy of FoxNews: The Jeep Grand Cherokee Trackhawk is a real time-saver. If you don’t mind pushing your luck with the law.
That’s because the latest version of the cargo-hauling, trailer-towing, family-friendly all-weather SUV is the most powerful and one of the quickest utility vehicles in the world.
It has the same 707 hp 6.2-liter supercharged V8 found in the Dodge Challenger and C...Continue Reading

Courtesy of the Times-Herald Record: Signs, signs, everywhere the signs. Former Town of Thompson Supervisor Tony Cellini remembers them well.
He first spotted all the “Casinos mean jobs” billboards, buttons and bumper stickers along Route 42 in 1963, driving his new Corvette Stingray from Port Jervis as he moved to Sullivan County.
The county’s resorts had quietly begun their gradual d...Continue Reading

Courtesy of Racer: With just 4.1 seconds as the total margin of victory from a full 12-race schedule, the 2017 Battery Tender Global Mazda MX-5 Cup presented by BFGoodrich Tires season was one of the most hotly contested championships in the sport. The Mazda vision of taking a production-based Mazda MX-5 Cup car to the track produced incredible parity of competition once again, as evidenced by th...Continue Reading

Courtesy of Road & Track:
Just yesterday, we shared the tale of the Mercedes G550 4x4², the most unstoppable off-roader we've ever tested. During that test, we also discovered that the iPhone 8 might be the G550 4x4² of phones.
Part of our test involved driving up and down a river, partly for photography, partly for shits and giggles. R&T.com contributor Roger Garbow was riding in ...Continue Reading